Jay

Does it need to be said that Mass Effect shouldn’t exist without the developers and team that was working on this game? Either they come back and make the game they were, or Mass Effect dies. kotaku.com/mass-effect-...

I love being reminded that the audience really doesn’t give a shit about the developers. Like, forget that one of the most influential studios in our industry was just executed by its publisher, just make sure the product continues on the assembly lines!

I think it might be just me and one guy seeing this showing of Digger.

you can't judge when bioware was really killed because the mismanagement at the higher level under EA has been so constant and pervasive since the acquisition at every stage that every game shipped at all was a herculean miracle

It is bat shit that the SECOND dot point in the report to end anti-semitism in schools is limiting pro-Palestine imagery. Antisemitism is obviously a problem, it needs more attnetion, as does hate crimes against Muslims. But making that the second or any point just reveals what your intent is

Ask your favorite devs, ask your favorite influencers why they're still covering Microsoft games. Its been disheartening to see so many people I respect not even pay lip service to BDS at a minimum. Even Nextlander who did seem to care about BDS recently covered that new WOW thing.

wrote about penguin colony and boycotts meaning something

So I think everyone understands this already, but this is basically a euphemism for "we're hiring fewer full time employees and more contractors and codev studios because we don't have to pay them as much." I wish I could say this was an isolated case but I'm seeing it p much everywhere.

So, the plan as of today is, it'll be illegal to watch porn, you have to get a license to watch youtube and trans people won't be allowed medical aid but instead left to bleed to death on the steps of A&E. It's days like this which just make you so proud to be a citizen of Piss Island

Man, aw the folk saying Burnham was gonna turn things around really had to eat shit in record time. The libs are gonna have to be quick on the keyboard for the next PM cause that guy is gonna break land speed records for doing a fascism

Yesterday, Wizards informed us that it doesn’t intend to voluntarily recognize the D&D or Studio X units of our union ahead of a vote. We remain committed to creating a workplace focused on wellness, transparency, and collaboration by winning our coming election.

It's kinda funny watching a few game journos who continue to cover Xbox praising House House for following BDS. Like mother fuckers, learn from their example and stop this shit. Especially the independent ones. I get if you work for Gamespot you kinda have to follow editorial, but GVG don't

jason schrier's gta6 piece printing among the most credulous quotes I've ever seen anyone put to game journalism paper

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

It is hard to picture a world in which Tim Schafer "accidentally" laid off specifically every person in his company who had led a Unionization effort or supported it. Very tough to imagine that being an accident, and kind of fatally sabotages Tim's "good guy" vibes.

We're back. 💫

I swear one of the major reasons Mike Flanigan moved from Netflix to Amazon was because Netflix refused to air Midnight Mass weekly and then Carrie just comes out in one day? Make that make sense?

Has anyone heard anything about this guy www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

Holy shit! variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Ran my first session of Mothership last night. I was very rusty cause I haven't ran anything in months, but it went alright I think. Some growing pains with the system, but I'm getting a hold of it and I really like the Stress and Panic systems. One player got up to 10 Stress, it owned.

Running Mothership tomorrow for the first time after having not run anything in a LONG time and honestly really struggling. I'm trying to plan and overwhelmed by just how little mechanically I have to plan for and also really struggling finding assets, to the point where I might have to go minimal.

Fire Emblem Fortunes Weave. A game thats age rating allows it to have no sex, but I just heard maybe the worst inuendo ever.

Have we all forgoten that Blizard is part of Microsoft so on the BDS list, or do ya'll just not give a shit?

A note on that Kotaku piece about the city exploration being a slog in Control Resonant. You can look at that headline, go "well it didn't feel like that for me", close the page you saw it on, and move on with your day. You are not required by law to post about it and mock the writer. Be an adult.

Honestly the reaction to Burnham's 'vibes' really sticks in the craw when he's clearly made a strategic decision that the winning strategy on trans people is to never talk about it and hope it all goes away. Leaving us in a state of permanent fear of lawfare and abuse and enormous waiting lists.

Ed Miliband out here being like "Oh no we're pretty sure the military equipment we're giving to the Nazi's isn't being used in their war effort". I cannot stand every liberal lining up to give him and Andy a pat on the back for doing nothing. We are still complicit in the genocide.

every discussion of comic book adaptations needs to start from the baseline assumption that comics are the superior medium. something will always be lost in translation. if you can't be humble enough to admit this, you'll be chasing shadows in the labyrinth for the rest of your natural life.